Nancy Pelosi could run a grocery store. Maybe.

Back in high school, I worked part-time at a grocery store. Then, as now, I said things that made people mad at me. Then, as now, people left messages to indicate their unhappiness.

Today, it’s the comments section. Back then, it was on the walls of the store’s men’s room.

One day, the assistant managers summoned me to Stall No. 3 and showed me where someone had besmirched my character with graffiti. They then proceeded to yell at me for this, somehow drawing the conclusion that I was responsible for defaming myself.

I thought about that when I read the latest interview with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Don’t get me wrong. She’s sorta right. He has failed miserably. He told us that he had political capital and now, four years later, he clearly lost his political wallet at the political grocery store. Yes, the surge in Iraq has yielded positive results, but let’s be real — that was a do-over. And domestically, things are in the toilet of Stall No. 3 of the political grocery store men’s room.

After the midterm elections of 2006, when voters cleaned house, the stage was set for change.

It didn’t happen

Pelosi and her posse still haven’t delivered. For two years, they should have been — rightly or wrongly — stomping a parliamentary mudhole in Bush’s lame (duck) White House. If things were so bad under a Republican administration and Republican congress, it should’ve been a piece of cake to fix it. But they haven’t done squat. They can’t even get Karl Rove to show up even after they subpoenaed him.

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